Ok, gang. I got it working with the following:

Nikto-1.30
Net_SSLeay.pm-1.22
openssl-0.9.7b
perl 5.6.0

These versions of Nikto and OpenSSL are said to be not tested, but I figured I would try it out anyway. I mean...why not...hehe.

Hey Annya: I ran it with the following syntax so that I could be absolutely sure that it would work with the SSL module.

Code:
./nikto.pl -g -h xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -verbose -allcgi -port 443 -ssl
I was originally getting an error (wish I copied it) stating something along the lines of cannot scan using SSL because it wasn't properly configured, but now, that's gone! Life is good.

Thanks for responding to my post. By the way, how do you like using it? Would you consider it one of your "essentials" for web scanning, or do you have another preference? Just curious.

Edit: By the way, I forgot to mention that I am currently running it on a RH 7.2 box. I think I will try it on Slackware 9 just for giggles. That's my latest distro.

Cheers

t2k2